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The Brussels Court of Appeal (the Court) has decided that the Belgian State, the Brussels Region, and the Flemish Region violated Articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and...
Author(s): Nathalie Colin, Aurelie Devillers
This week, the 12th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights took place in Geneva, from 27-29 November 2023. Over 2,000 participants from government, business, investor organisations, civil society, UN b...
Author(s): Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Elizabeth Forster
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its long-awaited Policy Statement on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels (PS23/16) on 28 November. Delayed from an initia...
Author(s): Elisabeth Overland, Fran Kaehr
Following Germany’s recent revision of the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz – EnWG), the legislator significantly strengthened the Federal Network Agency’s (Bundesnetzagentur – BNetzA) ro...
Author(s): Philipp Reinecke, LL.M., Ulrich Scholz, Mirko Masek, Hendrik Wessling, Marie von Armansperg
As we continue to face a global climate crisis, there is an urgent need to decarbonise all sectors of the economy. Ambitious global commitments such as the Paris Agreement of 2015 have been set by gov...
Author(s): Selina Pope
In 2018, when the Dutch NGO Milieudefensie/Friends of the Earth Netherlands requested Royal Dutch Shell’s CEO to formulate a climate plan, this was perceived as an unusual move. A compulsory climate a...
Author(s): Elena Engels, Theresa Schumacher
This year’s COP in Dubai, like previous ones, will focus on country level commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and support a global economic move away from GHG reliance. This year, the...
Author(s): Jake Reynolds, Charlotte Aspin
California's new "Climate Accountability Package" is set to expedite the timeline for U.S., and possibly global, emissions and climate-related financial risk reporting. This acceleration surpasses the...
Author(s): Elizabeth Bieber, Juliane Hilf, Vanessa Jakovich, Teresa Ko, Pamela Marcogliese, Sascha Arnold, Sam Houshower, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Charlotte Aspin, Ian Good, Prince Kudolo